Design an Abstract Style Sword Warrior with Fiery Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design an Abstract Style Sword Warrior with Fiery Effect in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try :)

Along the way, we will be using some photoshop retouching techniques, selection tools, cloud effect, texture application and custom brush painting.

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Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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Step 1

Create a new document sized 790px * 1050px with black background, create a new layer and use the gradient fill (set to radial gradient) tool to fill the background as shown below:

Load the stone texture into Photoshop, use the quick selection tool to select a portion of the texture as shown below – we will be using this to create some ground texture:

Copy and paste the selection onto our document, use the free transform tool to perspective it a bit to create some depth:

Use a soft eraser tool to remove the edges so it fades into the background:

Add the following 3 adjustment layers to this stone texture as clipping mask:

Black and White

Levels

Curves

and here is the effect you will have so far:

Step 2

Load the model image into Photoshop, cut out the model and paste it onto our canvas, resize and position the model in the centre as shown below:

Use the Smudge Tool with 6px pressure to remove the roughness around the legs area:

Add the following 3 adjustment layers on this model layer as clipping mask:

Black and white

Layer mask on this black and white adjustment layer:

Levels

Layer mask on the levels adjustment layer:

Curves

Layer mask on the curves adjustment layer:

After the adjustment, you will find that we now have some burnt effect around the legs, which I think works well with the fiery theme:

Create a new layer and use a soft black brush, paint some shadow under the feet: (use a 20% flow and opacity setting, we don’t want to over paint the shadow)

and here is the effect so far:

Step 3

In this step, we will be adding some cloud and fire effect to the image. With the cloud part, we can simply use the cloud filter in Photoshop, combing it with the warp tool to render some nice effect around the model:

My name is James and I have been using Photoshop since version 5.0. I am the owner of this blog and writes majority of the Photoshop tutorials and articles. If you have any questions about the Photoshop tutorials, feel free to leave a comment and I will try my best to answer it.

This tutorial will remind my past when i play different games and see these type of cartoons fighting each other now these happy days are gone. This tutorial give me some very memories of my Life. Great Photoshop Tutorial.